50 of Our Most Popular, Brightest Salads

I was flabbergasted to discover that there isn't a national salad day. There is Potato Salad Day (March 8) and Caesar Salad Day (July 4, natch), but what about all the other salads that pull us through harried lunchtimes, that bring the requisite crunch and acid to our dinners, that are so mighty they warrant a whole book?

You know the ones we're talking about, because you've made them already: The 50 salad recipes that follow are the most popular in our history.

A New Way to Dinner, co-authored by Food52's founders Amanda Hesser and Merrill Stubbs, is an indispensable playbook for stress-free meal-planning (hint: cook foundational dishes on the weekend and mix and match ‘em through the week).